Last Week in Drizzle

Welcome to the third edition of Last Week in Drizzle.  The diff of the trunk between last Friday and right now is just over 230,000 lines in size, 10x the size of the previous week!  This includes many changes to the documentation, code clean-ups and Patrick Crews' continued work on our new DBQP test suite.

Replication

David Shrewsbury (I'm going to spell his name correctly this week ;)) and Patrick Crews have been working hard on making replication even more rock solid.  The slave plugin is in, working and is stable with everything we can throw at it.

Drizzle developer day

We have a Drizzle Developer Day at the 2011 O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo.  Anyone is welcome to come and learn, contribute and make suggestions about Drizzle.  It will be on Friday 15th April 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. although the exact location is to be confirmed it will likely take place in the Santa Clara Convention Centre.

If you wish to come along please sign-up here.

Race to GA

Our RC2 was released on the 28th of February and included the stabilised replication code amongst other fixes.  So the release schedule for Drizzle7 is:

RC1 – 14th February 2011 Released
RC2 – 28th February 2011 Released
GA – 14th March 2011

SQLAlchemy

Monty Taylor has been working hard to get Drizzle working with SQLAlchemy which has a very rigorous test suite.  This will help make it easier for Drizzle to act as a data store for OpenStack Compute which uses SQLAlchemy.

Libdrizzle

We have noticed that people have been downloading libdrizzle from the old libdrizzle Launchpad page.  Back in October we merged libdrizzle into the main Drizzle trunk and since then all bug fixes/development has happened there.  We highly recommend not using the old libdrizzle (which has known bugs) and we are in the process of shutting down the old libdrizzle development page.

Drizzle module for PHP

We have started developing the Drizzle module for PHP in Launchpad and have created a new release of this which is compatible with the libdrizzle in the Drizzle trunk.  We are working to get the fixes in PECL but in the mean time we will be developing in Launchpad and basing any binary releases from this.

Of course, Drizzle is compatible with the MySQL protocol so the existing MySQL functions and classes will work with Drizzle.

Drizzle module for Perl

Patrick Galbraith has released version 0.303 of DBD::Drizzle which contains several fixes for talking to a Drizzle server.

Final Thoughts

We are pretty much at the homestretch for the first GA, years of work from a huge amount of contributors will have a stable release.  Thanks to the many people who have helped make this happen.  We receive valuable feedback every day and all of it goes to make Drizzle a better product.

As always if you have any feedback or topics you would like me to cover, please let me know.